Dawn.com, IRAN’S President Hassan Rouhani had been due to eat lunch with French President Francois Hollande in an upmarket restaurant on Thursday, but negotiations broke down after the Iranians requested a halal, alcohol-free meal. French officials insisted on serving traditional local food and wine, saying making a meal “Iran friendly” […]
Reuters International JAN 29, 2016 – 18:02 AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Move over FBI: Europe now has its own “most wanted” list, with suspects in Islamist militant attacks on Paris looming large. European police agencies on Friday introduced the list on a website hosted by Europol, as part of a push […]
Iranian officials asked that a lunch between the two countries’ presidents be Halal and alcohol-free Caroline Mortimer @cjmortimer Thursday 28 January 2016 156 comments Hollande and Rouhani were supposed to meet for lunch at an upmarket restaurant in Paris Getty Images A lunch between the French and Iranian presidents in […]
Source: Yahoo News Paris (AFP) – A documentary on radical Islam has struck a nerve in France two-and-a-half months after a devastating jihadist attack in Paris and sparked a debate […]
Source: BBC French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira has stepped down from her job, shortly before plans to strip people convicted of terrorism of their citizenship go before parliament. Ms Taubira […]
Source: BBC Iranian president Hassan Rouhani will arrive in France on Wednesday for the second leg of his state visit to Europe, after three days in Italy. Mr Rouhani is […]
Source: The Guardian By Angelique Chrisafis in Paris Education minister says pupils should be taught that separation of church and state is there to protect them, accusing rightwing politicians of […]
Source: The Guardian The French principle of secularism has been twisted by politicians and so often wrongly used to attack Islam that schoolchildren have been left baffled, the French education […]
By Mohammad Ghazal – Jan 16,2016 -JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — A cartoon published by Her Majesty Queen Rania in response to the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo’s mocking of the three-year-old Syrian boy found dead on a Turkish beach last year went viral over the weekend. On her Facebook […]
Source: BBC At least 23 people of 18 different nationalities are now known to have died after Islamist militants attacked a luxury hotel in Burkina Faso. Al-Qaeda militants attacked the […]
The young Malian went from migrant worker to right-wing target after helping hide Jewish hostages at a kosher supermarket before briefing police before their successful assault John Lichfield Paris Thursday 7 January 2016 Lassana Bathily with his book ‘Je ne suis pas un heros’ (‘I Am Not A Hero’) Getty Images Lassana […]
Source: Yahoo News Paris (AFP) – Hundreds of mosques across France are participating in a major open-house event this weekend, offering visitors the opportunity to come in for tea and […]
Source: BBC French mosques have invited non-Muslims in to try to create greater understanding of Islam in France. Visitors are being offered hot drinks, pastries, calligraphy demonstrations and discussion during […]
Source: BBC If you are planning on driving in France, beware – one could be heading straight for you at the next roundabout. Carolyn Brown, who lives part of the […]
Source: Reuters The Vatican newspaper has criticized French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo for depicting God as a Kalashnikov-carrying killer, saying it was “woeful” and disrespectful to true believers of all […]
theguardian — Osservatore Romano says cartoon shows sad paradox of world that is increasingly careful to be politically correct yet does not respect believers’ faith The anniversary edition of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo at a printing house near Paris. Photograph: Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images The Vatican’s newspaper on Tuesday […]
Françoise Frenkel’s book ‘Rien où poser sa tête’ has been rescued from obscurity. Robert Fisk celebrates an extraordinary writer, and her story which has a mystery at its heart. Robert Fisk @indyvoices Tuesday 29 December 2015 German-occupied Paris, 1942. The Jewish population were forced to wear the yellow […]
Source: Pulitzer Center BY NICK SHINDO STREET A light rain was falling as young men and women — some in hip European street clothes, others in hijabs or ankle-length robes […]
At the Grande-Synthe camp, children are forced to play in the mud as a sanitation crisis looms Adam Lusher Wednesday 23 December 2015 286 comments Mohammad Faiq, four, plays outside his family’s tent at the Grande-Synthe camp, near Dunkirk, yesterday Justin Sutcliffe In front of a tent pitched beside a […]
By AFP – Dec 27,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Demonstrators, most of them angry against Muslim residents, march in Ajaccio, on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica, on Saturday (AP photo) AJACCIO, France — France banned demonstrations in part of the Corsican capital Ajaccio on Sunday following two days of anti-Arab […]